Re: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

(I hope a single reply will also address Paul's and Christian's questions.) Maximiliano Curia (02/08/2009): > Hola Cyril Brulebois! Hola! (KiBi or Cyril would be sufficient. ;)) > Given the points you listed before, its understandable if you prefer > to dedicate your time to

Re: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

o<, so people noticed this discussion and brought it up on #blendercoders, where I just had a tiny chat. It looks like they agreed that the ffmpeg situation is quite unfortunate (that's the most problematic external embedded library we both could think of), but there are some technical stuff that

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch.2

Goswin von Brederlow (03/08/2009): > Does it break aptitude too? I think that people involved in serious things like multiarch and glibc might appreciate your staying quiet at some point given the quite huge mess you initially created. But maybe that's just me. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Descri

Re: CDBS + python + control with 2 .deb

sandro (05/08/2009): > What should I do to have 2 packages defined in control, one a python > package and one a documentation package and use cdbs? Try -ment...@. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Status of new source formats project

Michael Banck (05/08/2009): > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:22AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > And for the format of the patch, I do not know what to tell them > > apart that unified diff is the preferred format of some Debian > > developers, > > It's the preferred format for 99% of all Free

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

Charles Plessy (05/08/2009): > In my workplace's cafeteria, 99 % of the people eat curry rice with a > spoon, and 1 % with chopsticks. But this is causing no trouble, and > never the spoon users ask the chopsticks users to change their > instrument (and I can tell you that I do not leave a single

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

Hi Holger. Holger Levsen (06/08/2009): > http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/processes_running_error.html and > http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/processes_running_error.html lists > those packages. Identical URLs? And for the sake of archiving for one, and for the sake of people not always on

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

Charles Plessy (06/08/2009): > So to summarise, you are suggesting me to write upstream that: > > 1) We want to review their patches, > 2) We can not do this with context diffs, > 3) We do want to actively reject non-unified diffs despite our tools work > well with them, Sure. > 4) The rea

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

Cyril Brulebois (06/08/2009): > But, since we tweak the headers, the check can get added before the > first dereferencement. Of course, there are the fuzzy stuff with patch, > but sounds less likely to happen. Heh, might have left that to the attentive reader, but let's fix the

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

Cyril Brulebois (06/08/2009): > Heh, might have left that to the attentive reader, but let's fix the > typo: s/before/after/. :) And given I wasn't even using the right option, I'm going to hide for a while, lalala. (Thanks pusling.) Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#540332: ITP: at-spi2-core -- Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (Core) - dbus

Ray Wang (07/08/2009): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Ray Wang > > > * Package name: at-spi2-core > Version : 0.1.0 > Upstream Author : Mike Gorse > Mark Doffman > * URL : https://projects.codethink.co.uk/index.php/p/at-spi2 > * L

Re: What’ s the use for Standards-Version?

Russ Allbery (12/08/2009): > zcat /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz \ > | sed /`grep Standards-Version debian/control | awk '{ print $2 }'`/Q > > ? I just use zless on that file and stop reading when I get to the > current Standards-Version of the package, but t

Re: What’ s the use for Standards-Version?

Romain Beauxis (12/08/2009): > Is it foolish to propose this as a lintian check ? "Hey, standards version > is outdated, here are the changes that ought to be done" checks/standards-version.desc Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What’ s the use for Standards-Version?

Romain Beauxis (13/08/2009): > Le jeudi 13 août 2009 00:09:09, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > > Romain Beauxis (12/08/2009): > > > Is it foolish to propose this as a lintian check ? "Hey, standards > > > version is outdated, here are the changes that ought to b

Re: boost 1.39 (was: Re: Return of unversioned boost -dev packages (boost-defaults))

mathieu.malate...@gmail.com (20/08/2009): > I am lost, why is the versionned boost1.39 back then ? How should > one write control file using let say: libboost-math-dev ? Should I > do libboost-math-dev | libboost-math1.39-dev ? The -defaults package provides versionless -dev packages who pull

Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘copyright’ file of a package?

Torsten Werner (29/08/2009): > most is explained in > > and the 2 links within that message. If one is going to “mehhh this is not pointed by any documentation, that's just another dda@ post, please document it!¡!”, check devre

Re: library-related policy question

Nikita V. Youshchenko (06/09/2009): > Is libpkg-guide an official debian document these days? FSVO “official”: - http://packages.debian.org/sid/libpkg-guide - http://bugs.debian.org/libpkg-guide Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: The future of the boot system in Debian

Petter Reinholdtsen (07/09/2009): > I guess we were a bit unclear. The point is to use it for upgrades > (ie when it exist), while not installing /etc/inittab for new > installs, thus slowly getting rid of the file while ensuring the > switch do not affect upgrades negatively. :) I guess you mis

Re: debmirror - new features

Frans Pop (12/09/2009): > I wasn't planning to, partly because the new packaging requires > debhelper v7. Which is available on backports.org, too. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: The 'git' Debian package in squeeze

Gerrit Pape (17/09/2009): > I'm about to provide a new git binary package from the git-core (the > distributed revision control system) source, so that 'apt-get > install git' installs the git content tracker in squeeze. Nice. :) > For people upgrading from lenny with git (from gnuit) installed,

Re: renamings to remove extensions

John H. Robinson, IV (29/09/2009): > These are what are expected when you use qmail and daemontools the > DJB way. > > http://cr.yp.to/unix.html > > We solve the first one with /var/qmail/bin being a symlink to > /usr/sbin. We don't solve the latter one at all. > > Debian bug, or DJB bug? T

Re: Rebuilding all 100+ r-cran-* packages for R 2.10.0

Dirk Eddelbuettel (16/10/2009): > This means we "should" rebuild all packages or else they will upon > load trigger a nagging message 'package foo was built under R > version x.y.z and may not function properly' as well as possible > malfunctions of the help system. As we're only talking 100+ > p

Re: Lintian based autorejects

Joerg Jaspert (27/10/2009): > No. Not much helpful to reject buildd packages. Like the ones totally broken due to “toolchain” issues? The dbus/debhelper joke comes to mind: The sourceful upload was OK. Due to bad timing, the autobuilt packages were not. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: D

Re: Lintian based autorejects

Stephen Gran (28/10/2009): > What that has to do with lintian based auto-rejects, I'm not really > sure, but thanks. Files were installed in binary packages (built on autobuilders with the brand new toolchain packages) within unusual locations (resulting in quite broken packages), which lintian w

Re: kfreebsd problem

Francesco P. Lovergine (29/10/2009): > I noted that kfreebsd-* are missing python binding generation for > libkml. I already forced PYTHON choice at building time (which > worked on other archs) but in this case it does not help. Any hints? When it comes to missing .so, it might be outdated libt

Re: Lintian based autorejects

Manoj Srivastava (01/11/2009): > This was not a mass filing as I reaed it. Each bug was filed > after being checked individually, and was filed one by one, > manually. This was not a massive script which could have massive > numbers of false positives, and thus these are just bugs fi

Re: Lintian based autorejects

Cyril Brulebois (01/11/2009): > Then you probably should read Policy 7.1.1. Individual checks or > non-automation doesn't make it less massive. Make it DevRef (thanks, Kumar). Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dir-or-file-in-var-www on single-HTML file web "apps" or the like

Gunnar Wolf (04/11/2009): > So, given the attention to this thread: Do you judge this as > policy-compliant? What makes me wonder a bit is what would happen in case several webservers were to implement this kind of behaviour. When installing several of them at the same time, the resulting content

Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

Mike Hommey (10/11/2009): > Let me suggest adding "(like Firefox/3.5)", but I'm not sure how the > crappy sites parsing the version number will deal with the closing > parenthesis. What about “foo/bar -- similar to baz/quux” to avoid parenthesing issues? Or “like” or “similar to” or “almost like”

Re: Build logs from local builds

Charles Plessy (11/11/2009): > my gut feeling (but maybe I start to sound like a broken disk) is > that most “FTBFS” and RC bugs that stay unfixed are more the > signature of abandonned packages than sloppy maintainers. Abandoned packages may start to FTBFS due to changes in their build-dependenc

Re: Minimal kernel version raised to 2.6.27

Goswin von Brederlow (11/11/2009): > Homework: Find out how > > I uploaded a 147-2 package which reverts the O_CLOEXEC change and > allows 2.6.26, let's see if it works. > > translates to > > I stop using inotify_init1(). Easy: | --- a/udev/udev-watch.c | +++ b/udev/udev-watch.c | @@

Re: The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth. Maybe not.

Playing-with-the-subject-season? Alright. Charles Plessy (12/11/2009): > I do not think that such a list would contain more than 10 names > after removing the MIA DDs. Most of the aggressivity on Debian > Planet, and most of the examples I received in private in the past > point at the same perso

Re: The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth. Maybe not. Maybe yes.

Charles Plessy (12/11/2009): > I am not the one who calls people sloppy, stupid or candid on this > list. You started talking about people being non sloppy, that was not my language. (Or maybe I didn't dig enough to find another mention of it earlier in the thread, my bad should that be the case.

Re: xulrunner, poppler, gnome and gupnp transitions

Michal Čihař (16/11/2009): > Hi Hello, > "Adam D. Barratt" napsal(a): > > > #556178 was filed against geoclue this morning, but has already > > been marked as wontfix and closed. The suggestion was to modify > > gammu to build without libusb support on !linux, but there doesn't > > appear to

Re: Ridiculously large packages

Steve McIntyre (20/11/2009): > If you ever want this to be available on Debian CDs, you're going to > have to do something about the size. For now, I'm going to blacklist > this package altogether. And you didn't see Urban Terror and its 700+ MB yet! Speaking of which, what's the status of data.d

Re: Ridiculously large packages

Cyril Brulebois (20/11/2009): > And you didn't see Urban Terror and its 700+ MB yet! Speaking of > which, what's the status of data.debian.org? IIRC, it's been in the > pipe for 2+ years at the very least (was already mentioned during > DC'07). :) OOH. http://ftp

Re: bug #551926: python-pip and pip: error when trying to install together

Jonathan Yu (29/11/2009): > An alternative arrangement I'd be open to is: /usr/bin/pip points to > a sh script, which tells the user that `pip' has been renamed to > perl-pip and python-pip in Debian. This way, neither pip gets the > /usr/bin/pip name. Mentioning $LANG in the binary is the way to

Re: Bits from the NM people

Jeremy T. Bouse (29/11/2009): > There is already https://nm.debian.org/gpg.php that people should be > pointed to as a good starting place. Did you actually read the thread? (Either one more mail than the one you replied to; or only that one, but including the quoted message in there should be a

Re: How to use binutils-gold

Benjamin Drung (05/12/2009): > I got some FTBFS with binutils-gold bug reports. How can I build my > packages using binutils-gold? What do I have to change for that? As for using it, given its postinst, I guess you only have to install it to use it. Didn't check, though. http://wiki.debian.org/q

Re: Check if library has debug symbols

Michael Banck (08/12/2009): > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip etc. is an optional feature as far as I > know, it is not guaranteed to work. You need to inspect > debian/rules and possibly modify it yourself if there is no support > for it currently. FWIW: dh_strip DTRT when DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains

Re: Key signing

Nicolas (08/12/2009): > I have a look at that list but I think strange to "spam" people for > requiring a signing key. You're currently spamming -devel. > No ? Is it the right process ? People volunteered those bits of information. Guess why. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital si

Re: Can quilt delete files?

Peter Samuelson (10/12/2009): > Easier just to 'rm' ... but also, note that 'rename' will need some > sort of Build-depends: perl. Which sort? | -(cy...@talisker)-(~)-() | $ apt-cache show perl|egrep '^(Package|Build-Essential)' | Package: perl | Build-Essential: yes Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc

Re: Bug#561401: heimdal: FTBFS: Uses quilt in debian/rules, patches fail to apply.

Brian May (17/12/2009): > See bug #561401. See bug #557667? Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#490702: ITP: pencil -- Traditional animation/drawing software

Janne Jokitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (13/07/2008): > * Package name: pencil > Version : 0.4.4b > Upstream Author : Pascal Naidon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patrick Corrieri > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/ > * License : GPL > Pr

Re: Bug#490702: ITP: pencil -- Traditional animation/drawing software

Janne Jokitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (13/07/2008): > I wouldn't mind that at all, and you are correct that it would be my > first package. I have uploaded a candidate into REVU for including it > in Ubuntu, so if you don't mind, I would like to upload a candidate > for Debian after one round of quali

Re: amd64 buildd hosts

Walter Franzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (22/07/2008): > I'm trying to make aegis ready for lenny and it currently fails on > amd64 (nautilus), but the problem seems related to the environment > being somewhat broken. What's the best method to contact the > person(s) responsible for nautilus? [EMAIL P

Re: Bug#492419: ITP: squeezecenter -- Streaming Audio Server

Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (26/07/2008): > * Package name: squeezecenter > > SlimServer is a cross-platform streaming server that supports a wide > range of formats, including AAC, AIFF, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV, and > WMA. Misleading description? One might wonder how SlimServer re

Re: Bug#492520: ITP: python-git -- python-git is a Python library used to interact with Git repositories.

Hi, Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (26/07/2008): > Description : python-git is a Python library used to interact with Git > repositories. please check Developers Reference §6.2.2 on how to write a synopsis. I guess that “Python library to interact with Git repositories” would be nicer.

Re: No announcement for etch&half seen ?

Olivier Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (28/07/2008): > I haven't noticed any announcement sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about "Debian > GNU/Linux 4.0 updated and support for newer hardware added" > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg3.html) ... > maybe this is a user news mostly, but does

Re: Lenny frozen

Olivier Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (28/07/2008): > Can you provide a link to policy documents explaining the freeze > process in more details ? > > In particular, I'm not sure I understand the last paragraph quoted > bellow, the "only when this can be done via unstable" : Sure: http://www.debian

Re: projectb users - we want you

Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (07/08/2008): > > as we are currently planning database changes en masse to the > > projectb, ^ > I tried a Google search with "debian projectdb" as a keyword ^^ Also, you may need to force the search on p

Re: FTBS twice - what is the priority for it?

Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (14/08/2008): > Hi all, Hi, > Do I open a FTBS twice bug for the package and upload the fix? If so, > what priority should the new bug be? I saw FTBS bugs ranging from > "wishlist" to "important". I don't think it is an actual policy > violation (am I wrong? Ca

Re: Upcoming changes to supported architectures

Joshua Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (19/08/2008): > Unfortunately, ZFS is not currently available in GNU/kFreeBSD, but, > depending on licensing issues, could possibly be supported eventually. For interested people, see [EMAIL PROTECTED] and below. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Bug#495664: ITP: python-progressbar -- text progressbar library for Python

Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (19/08/2008): > This library provides a text mode progressbar. This is tipically used typically. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DELAYED queue and upload hostname

Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (21/09/2008): > Will a possibility to "upload" with SSH be added at some moment? Maybe it'd be feasible to teach dput/dupload how to use an @d.o machine as “proxy”, where the files are scp'd to, and from which they're moved to the appropriate place afterwards?

Re: Xen status in lenny?

Bruno Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (21/09/2008): > I haven't done that before, are there detailed instructions available > how to build on amd64 ? Something like that? http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Please install dput etc on ravel = debian-people

Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (29/09/2008): > > I am using debian-people for distributing packages for testing and > > backport reasons, and up to now (before the move) I could dput them > > from there. But ravel does not have dput installed. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not accept mails, who

Re: cron pulling citadel-server instead of exim4.

Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (20/10/2008): > Unfortunately, I do not manage to understand why exim4 was not chosen: #474999. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: For those who care about lesbians reloaded (Was: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount)

Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (23/11/2008): > Could we f*ing stop repeating the same old discussions over and over > and over ? every two year we troll about firmwares, bad jokes on > d-d-a, what else ? > > COULD WE PLEASE F*ING LEARN FROM OUR PAST PLEASE ? You may want not to use some deri

Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)

Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (29/11/2008): > Or > mentors.debian.net ? Source-only. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [php-maint] Bug#341420: marked as done (code in exts/dbase is not DFSG-free)

Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (29/11/2008): > 2008/11/29 Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Huh? We are in a permanent bugsquashing party, cause we want to > > release lenny. Still, coordination and communication matter. > Right, but it is a DFSG-freeness issue and those take time to >

Re: Can we help the release by proposing package removals?

Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (03/12/2008): > [blablabla for the actual question:] > Subject: Re: Can we help the release by proposing package removals? Look at debian-release@, that's already being done. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: NEW processing

Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (03/12/2008): > I've always wondered why it is not possible to add meta information to > an upload. > […] > In these cases, it would be nice to add an annotation to give hints > about the complexity of the task to the ftp-masters.. You want debian/changelog? Mra

Re: NEW processing

Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (03/12/2008): > That's not true. We imposed that reviewing step to ourselves, and, if > it's doing more harm (by slowing down development and annoying > contributors) than good (by detecting mistakes and improving Debian's > overall quality), we could simply decid

Re: NEW processing

Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (03/12/2008): > We have to draw the line somewhere. When people are regularly annoyed > by delays in some part of debian, maybe it's because we should move > the line slightly. > > Most of our users would probably agree to trade a small amount of > quality with f

Re: Packaging IKVM: inclusion of 3rd-party sources

David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (04/12/2008): > How should I behave here? > > 1) Should I include the sources in debian/ and do all the needed > steps to get a full compile? (notice that if we follow this, each > IKVM build will include an OpenJDK build...) > > 2) Or should I make two s

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (08/12/2008): > Unless you're talking about the ugly XMMS GUI. In which case, I > believe QMMS is available for packaging. So says an audacious packager and upstream author. Pot. Kettle. Black. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ITP: autodie -- Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope

Speaking about scope, name collision, etc.… Jeremiah Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09/12/2008): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Jeremiah C. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: libautodie-perl that is the name that should be in the first part of your ITP subject. Di

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09/12/2008): > Fortunately, porting to GTK+ 3 is going to be *much* easier. I’ll post > something about it as soon as the upstream release plans are official. SCNR: 2to3.py Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#508311: ITP: maven-archiver -- Maven Archiver

Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (09/12/2008): > * Package name: maven-archiver > Description : Maven Archiver No kidding‽ Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Misunderstand in debian/rules script

Всеволод Величко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (10/12/2008): > It normally builds the main part, but fails on the subdir building > with the "Cannot find file: icq.pro" error. > `pwd` outputs `/home/myhome/worskspace/package`, so I think that it > simply returns to the main dir after each command execution.

Re: apt-ftparchive bug ?

Salvatore Ansani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (11/12/2008): > I think I found a (possibly ?!?!?) bug regard how apt-ftparchive get > file size. Then use (possibly ?!?!?!!) reportbug to report the bug (incredible!), and the maintainers will take appropriate action, like closing it if it's an invalid bug, or

Re: Problem with bts2ldap and therefore bts.turmzimmer.net ?

Olivier Berger (11/12/2008): > While we're at it, I find mentions of > http://people.debian.org/~aba/bts2ldap/ sometimes by googleing > bts2ldap... but it's not there ATM. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/08/msg00012.html 2. http://oldpeople.debian.org/~aba/bts2ldap/ Mraw,

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

Debian Project Secretary (13/12/2008): > >FIRST CALL FOR VOTES FOR THE Lenny Release General Resolution >= === = === === = === === == > > Voting period starts 00:00:01 UTC on Sunday, December 14th, 2008 > Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on S

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

Thomas Weber (15/12/2008): > http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2008/11/msg00046.html Let's quote for people following at home: | >So, we now have a discussion period of two weeks, though I would | > prefer to actually start the vote Sunday 00:00:00 UTC (on November | > 23th, or, if the

Re: Results for Project membership procedures

devo...@vote.debian.org (15/12/2008): > digraph Results { > ranksep=0.25; > "Ask the DAMs to postpone the changes until vote or consensus.\n4.49" [ > style="filled" , fontname="Helvetica", fontsize=10 ]; > "Ask the DAMs to postpone the changes until vote or consensus.\n4.49" -> > "Further D

Re: The firmware GR

Robert Millan (15/12/2008): > I don't think d-d-a is meant to be used as a forum, but since others > are doing so, I guess it's fine if I join. Thankfully, replies to mail sent to dda@ land in d...@. You fail. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Purpose of devel-announce (Re: The firmware GR)

Kalle Kivimaa (15/12/2008): > As Cyril already pointed out, Robert's post was to the devel, not to > the devel-announce, so please ignore my outburst. Sorry for the noise. No no, you were right: | From: Robert Millan | To: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org But the lists are co

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

Russell Coker (16/12/2008): > I think that we need a way to upload to Lenny without involving > unstable. Or you might use experimental, and keep unstable for lenny. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

Michal Čihař (15/12/2008): > I thought testing-proposed-updates is for that... tpu is considered a last resort measure in case it's not possible to fix a package through unstable. Less testing (hmm) through tpu than through unstable is a part of the problem with pushing things this way rather tha

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

Bastian Venthur (15/12/2008): > Some suggest to cherry pick packages from experimental, but first some > packages like the kernel aren't even available there and second, AFAICT since kernel people are already busy with getting the kernel in shape for lenny. Not because of some classification. IMH

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

Bastian Venthur (15/12/2008): > Another way to see it is that unstable is constantly flowing and we're > just forking a stable distribution from it from time to time. It's called Ubuntu. Mraw, SCNR, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

Lucas Nussbaum (16/12/2008): > Number of distinct posters per month on debian-bugs...@lists.d.o: > [ figures ] > So, the number of people working on RC bugs has significantly > decreased since the beginning of the freeze. The less RC bugs, the less people working on it. Nice point you made. Mraw

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

Romain Beauxis (16/12/2008): > I think you completely forgot about the fact that this project is run > by people who aren't payed for that. They aren't paid for repeatedly ranting about the fact we have not released yet, either. Which is something Bastian does, and which is what was answered to.

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

Holger Levsen (18/12/2008): > To those thinking about expelling Joss, I'm in favor of this now. OOH, that's the season, maybe? > Trolling on purpose (repeatetly) for the sake of it is nothing I want > to see in Debian nor do I want to see it as accepted behaviour. Just for the record, Joss didn

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

Eduard Bloch (18/12/2008): > * Russell Coker [Thu, Dec 18 2008, 11:04:24PM]: > > http://discuss.itwire.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=7991 > > I would like to know what exactly Steve told them. The major tone WRT > OSS on that page seems to be pretty harsh, close to FUD and trolling. > > So how did St

Re: Gtk1.2/Imlib/gnome-lib packages (Long)

Daniel Leidert (19/12/2008): > > bluefish > > Actually built with gtk2 but still build-deps on gnome-bin?? (pinged > > maintainer). Just a suggests, can probably be removed. > > It does *not* build-depend on gnome-bin and I already told you this > (you simply did not answer). Where do you

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

Adeodato Simó (28/12/2008): > > Attached is a list of affected packages, > Cyril Brulebois >blender Bleh… Already pointed out upstream some time ago, but since they don't care about security at all… I guess I'll have to maintain another sec patch for years… >

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

Hi Russ. Russ Allbery (28/12/2008): > I started looking today in more depth at the MIME type registration > process for applications providing *.desktop files, dh_desktop, and > what Lintian is currently doing (as part of addressing #488832). With (or without, not sure) my submitter hat (Corsac

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

Steve Langasek (30/12/2008): > > strace > > mtr-tiny > > I think these are useful troubleshooting tools that we ought to > install by default. mtr-tiny is the only traceroute tool included in > standard currently. I concur for strace (at least). > I think we ought to even consider adding gdb in

Re: Bug#511640: ITP: gbirthday -- GBirthday is a birthday reminder application that helps you to remember your evolution contacts' birthdays.

Rolf Leggewie (13/01/2009): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Rolf Leggewie > > * Package name: gbirthday > Version : 0.4.1 > Upstream Author : Alex Mallo > * URL : http://gbirthday.sf.net/ > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: Python > Descrip

Re: Yet another list statistics for debian-devel

Loïc Minier (18/01/2009): > Geez instead of spamming every Debian list and making you the top > poster in terms of number of Debian lists today, what about announcing > this no -project and/or -devel and in the next developer news? Happy Tilleman day! Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description:

Re: Little endian /usr/share/locale/* files in epiphany-browser-data

Loïc Minier (20/01/2009): > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009, Neil Williams wrote: > > Changing the endianness of a .mo normally requires the original .po > > and the msgfmt binary which means a runtime dependency on gettext > > *AND* the need for the original source. Tatata. > I understand you're replying

Re: why MIA database restricted only for DDs

ss than an hour. I'd be happy to see everything *that* responsive. ;-) Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#447977: ITP: sunflow -- rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis

Package: wnpp Owner: Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: sunflow Version : 0.07.2 Upstream Author : Christopher Kulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://sunflow.sourceforge.net/ * License : MIT/X + BSD

Re: Friendly reminder: the Vcs-Browser field is now official

gelog only says: > * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git fields to debian/control. You can also look at the previous entry, which contains others. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Friendly reminder: the Vcs-Browser field is now official

Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (29/10/2007): > So, should we use XS-Vcs-* or Vcs-* [1] in debian/control now? Vcs-*. > Is there a documentation/wiki/etc. of valid fields somewhere? There's dpkg changelog in “etc.”. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

obsolete or not really usefull anymore. > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/ttf-thryomanes.html > http://packages.qa.debian.org/u/unifont.html Putting the pkg-fonts team in the loop, since it might be interested in taking care of these ones. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

ource package also builds audacious-crossfade which > probably should stay? Putting the audacious maintainer in the loop (unsure whether he reads d-d) so that he eventually picks up this package and maintains it along with audacious. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#448910: ITP: urandr -- resize your screen and set up multiple screens

Package: wnpp Owner: Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: urandr Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Alberto Milone (tseliot) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.albertomilone.com/urandr.html * License : GPLv2

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